What's on tap for 'Whidbey'?
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft's readying its next big Visual Studio release that (at least for now) is expected in 2004. Now that Microsoft has got its "Everett" release of Visual Studio .Net out the door, what's next for its integrated developer-tool suite? "Whidbey" is the code name for the release of Visual Studio that's expected to ship in 2004. Microsoft - and sources close to the company - have offered a few hints where it's going with the next major upgrade to the suite.
Whidbey will be joined at the hip with "Yukon," the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft execs have acknowledged. While Yukon feasibly could ship without Whidbey, or Whidbey without Yukon, Microsoft's plan is to roll the two out in tandem, the way it rolled out Visual Studio .Net 2003 alongside Windows Server 2003.